Industries
Software for hospitality and retail.
The venue already has a till and does not want to replace it. So we build systems that connect to the existing point of sale and pull revenue, cost and reporting out of it.
The hard part of this industry
Sales data does not live in the cloud. It sits on a machine in the venue, inside a database somebody else installed. You have to reach it without touching that till, without stopping service, and without a person retyping numbers every night.
- Reading a point of sale database on a third party machine without affecting its work.
- Fiscalisation: the system relies on it, while the till keeps issuing the receipts.
- Several locations in one view, with data arriving at different times.
- Voids, discounts and payment types that must add up exactly as they do on the shift report.
What we built
Patrono runs a hospitality venue. It does not issue receipts. It connects to the till the venue already uses, so rolling it out needs no new hardware and no change for the floor staff.
Alongside it runs an agent on the machine in the venue. It reads the till database and sends the data to the cloud, signed and with no human in the loop. The owner sees yesterday's revenue, the payment split and the best selling items in the morning, without opening the till.
What a venue usually asks for
These are the items that most often end up in scope. You do not need all of it at once, only what you do by hand today.
- Revenue by day, week and month, compared with the same weekday.
- Food cost and recipes, so you can see which dish actually earns.
- Shift scheduling and time tracking.
- Food safety checklists and temperature records.
- Supplier invoices and payment terms.
When this is the wrong route
One venue, one till and an owner who keeps it all in their head usually does fine on an off the shelf subscription. Custom pays off once you run several locations, once you retype data from the till into a spreadsheet, or once the till will not give you the report you need.
From the portfolio
From this industry.
Restaurant Management Platform
VisitPatrono
Operations platform for a restaurant, in the browser and on the phone. The owner sees where the place stands every day: revenue, costs and supplier invoices in one place, food cost per dish with margins, shift schedules staff open on their phones, and HACCP records ready for an inspection.
Read the case study
Business system
Agency CRM
CRM for a consultancy working with restaurants and food brands. Tracks clients and their venues, consolidates data from delivery platforms, and produces reports, a planner and analytics.
Questions
FAQ
Do we have to replace our point of sale?+
No. We connect to the till you already use and read from it. The till keeps issuing receipts and handling fiscalisation, and our system does everything above it.
Does it work when the venue loses internet?+
Yes. The agent collects locally and sends once the connection returns, so an outage delays a report instead of losing data.
Can we track several locations at once?+
Yes. Each location has its own till and its own agent, while the owner gets one view across all of them and can switch between them.
How long does one venue take to set up?+
Installing the agent and pulling the history is usually a day of work. The timeline for the full system depends on what you track besides revenue, and we agree it after the first conversation.
Contact
Have an idea? Let's talk.
Tell us about the project. For smaller ones we send an analysis and a quote within a few days. For larger and more complex work we agree the scope of that analysis with you first.